Of Disabilities & Dixie!

There are no handicaps for QDA: A Queer Disabled Anthology contributors David Cummer and Lucas Scheelk (interviewed by correspondents Dixie Treichel and John Townsend).

The writers featured in Crooked Letter I: Coming Out in the South wrestle with U.S. Southern inhospitality (reviewed by Queer Life & Literature commentator Janet Mason).

Remembering some LGBT luminaries we lost this year in an extended Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Mary Wallace).

And in NewsWrap: an activist/attorney renews the challenge to Jamaica's "buggery" law, out candidates score electoral firsts in Venezuela and Australia, the U.K. and U.S. each set out the welcome mat for LGBT Syrian refugees, a 4-year old Swiss boy demands the legal recognition of both his dads in the European Court of Human Rights, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 8, 2015

SUMMARY

Turning Point - An historic violence-free week of LGBT Pride is celebrated in Kingston, Jamaica …

Inherent Right - Philippine same-gender couples push for marriage equality …

Standing Alone - St. Petersburg police arrest individual LGBT rights picketers on Russia’s Airborne Forces Day …

End the Masquerade - thousands in Israel protest deadly anti-LGBT and anti-Palestinian Jewish extremism …

Who Do They Think They Are? - Maine’s highest court is still trying to get the anti-equality National Organization for Marriage to disclose its donors lists …

Fond Adieu - the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which spearheaded the overturning of California’s Proposition 8, announces that, mission accomplished, it’s going out of business …

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 30, 2015

SUMMARY

Warm Regards - Greenland becomes the 21st nation on the planet to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Irish Blowback - Italy’s PM pushes for civil unions, Polish lawmakers refuse to consider them for the fourth time, and Germany’s Chancellor rules out marriage equality, but more than 50 top Australian businesses push for it Down Under …

Jamming the Process - Jamaica’s Justice Minister rejects UN calls for the island nation to repeal its “buggery” laws …

And It Just Wouldn't Look Good - Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council overrules a Russia-like “no promo homo” bill …

Quackery Not Covered - Manitoba becomes the first Canadian province to outlaw so-called “conversion therapy” …

Rebel Yell - Alabama lawmakers vote to replace marriage licenses with a contract process, and kill an LGBT anti-bias bill …

No Word From Those Persecuted Christians - Alabama minister Anne Diprizio is sentenced for her February “attempted marriage” of a lesbian couple …

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Unhidden McClellan & Home Outgrown

Week of September 8, 2014
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Fear Nothing, listeners! The Voice finalist Beverly McClellan sings I Can't Hide Me … and tells Dixie Treichel just why she can't.

The viral video of a family feud fuels support -- and funding -- for gay Georgia teen Daniel Ashley Pierce and Lost-n-Found Youth, an Atlanta-based non-profit serving homeless LGBT young people (as told to WXIA-TV).

And in NewsWrap: Coahuila becomes the first Mexican state to legislate marriage equality, the U.S. 7th Circuit slams marriage bans with lightning speed, a gay man challenging Jamaica's "buggery" statute withdraws after death threats, Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law looms again, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 6, 2014

SUMMARY

Free Unions With Full Consent - Coahuila becomes the first state in Mexico to legislatively open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

With All Due Haste - the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rapidly rules that bans on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Indiana and Wisconsin violate the U.S. Constitution …

Judicial Choices Refutation - a federal judge in Louisiana bucks the tide and upholds that state's ban, calling marriage equality "lifestyle choices recognition" …

Plaintiff Intimidation - Jamaican activist Javed Jaghai withdraws his Supreme Court challenge to the island nation's anti-gay buggery laws after receiving death threats to him and his family …

New Improved Hate - a possibly-revised form of Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law is headed for parliament …

Emerald Ops - organizers of New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade bend a 253-year ban by announcing that they’ll allow one – but only one - LGBT-identified organization, as it happens the employee group of one of its major sponsors, to march in the Parade next year …

Ride 'Em, Cowboy - the St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first out player drafted into the professional ranks of the U.S. National Football League, due to an over-abundance of other defensive end talent, but the Dallas Cowboys quickly hire Sam for their practice squad, a possible gateway to his first regular season debut …

Laced With Pride - the Australian Football League (AFL) endorses marriage equality, and top British professional football stars will soon be sporting rainbow laces in support of out players and fans ….

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Drag King Mo B. Dick

Week of July 7, 2014
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Entertainer Mo B. Dick (aka Maureen Fischer) drags in a different direction, taking correspondent Michelle-Marie Gilkeson into the world of male impersonators.

Plus: queer life and literature commentator Janet Mason bids a fond arrivederci to Philadelphia LGBT/feminist bookstore Giovanni’s Room.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. equalizes spousal benefits, federal court finds marriage equality not harmful to Kentucky heterosexuals, SCOTUS nixes conversion and contraception, freed Zambian gays face fuzzy future, Dorothy's friend unveils homophobe housing plan, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Gary Shaw (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 5, 2014

SUMMARY

Peace and Security - The United Nations extends spousal benefits to its legally married lesbian and gay workers equal to those given to married heterosexual employees …

Big Fish Worth Fishing - a Finnish parliamentary committee again rejects a marriage equality proposal …

War of Weddings - Kentucky's state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples is the latest in the U.S. to be declared unconstitutional, an appeals court stops gay and lesbian marriages in Indiana, and Colorado's Attorney General squares off against a marriage license-distributing Boulder County Clerk …

Conversion & Contraception - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling upholding California's ban on so-called "reparative therapy" for minors, but sides with closely-held businesses like Hobby Lobby that want to deny birth control options for its female workers based on religious belief – which could open the door to religious-based bias against LGBT people …

Freed to Fuzzy Future - Zambia frees two young men charged with engaging in illegal homosexual acts due to lack of evidence …

Marching Backwards - an estimated 25,000 Jamaicans rally against LGBT rights in Kingston …

Homophobe Housing Plan - Seattle, Washington drag queen "Mama Tits" warns homophobic religious protesters at the Emerald City's annual Pride parade to watch out for falling houses ….

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Nepal Progresses & Russia Regresses

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Sapphic Nomads Katie Cook and Maggie Young arrive in the Himalaya to meet Nepal's leading gay activist, Sunil Babu Pant, in Kathmandu. Cook and Young are filmmakers searching for LGBT activists all over the world for a documentary. Pant is the founder of the Blue Diamond Society and was the country's first openly gay Member of Parliament.

Lesbian writer Masha Gessen confronts Russia's growing homophobic fascism on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes.

And in NewsWrap: Jamaica's sodomy repeal debate motivates escalating violence, California lesbian couple wins post-DOMA disabled veteran benefits, marriage equality revolts engulf U.S. localities, worker-unfriendly WalMart romances same-gender partners, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 31, 2013

SUMMARY

Island Fever - Mob violence against LGBT people rises sharply in Jamaica, fueled by anti-sodomy preachers …

Health and Taxes - the reverberating effects this week of the U.S. Supreme Court's DOMA decision include the Internal Revenue Service announcing that it will treat married same-gender couples the same as their heterosexual peers, and the Health and Human Services Department declaring that same-gender couples will now have access to all the benefits of Medicare that had previously been reserved for heterosexual married couples …

About Face - a federal judge declares a U.S. statute that denies equal benefits to married lesbian and gay veterans unconstitutional …

Tipping Point - marriage equality is now enjoyed in more than half of New Mexico while its Association of Counties asks the state high court to issue a definitive ruling on the issue …

Oh, Grow Up! - Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett compares gay and lesbian couples to 12-year-old children in his legal filing against an official in the state's Montgomery County who's also handing out marriage licenses to same-gender couples …

Thank Goodness for Small Favors - global retail behemoth WalMart extends domestic partner benefits to its 2.2 million employees around the world …

Keep Out of Reach of Children - the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds California's first-in-the-nation law banning so-called "conversion therapy" for minors …

Prisoner of Gender - the attorney for U.S. Army Private Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning reports that the transgender soldier is doing well as she acclimates to life at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, but that the Army is denying her hormone therapy and other necessary treatment for gender dysphoria …

Justice of the Peace - Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history as the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to officiate at the wedding of a same-gender couple ….

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Sapphic Nomads in Samoa & Rev. Rebecca Voelkel

In the first of a series of "on the road" reports, traveling lesbian documentarians Maggie Young and Katie Cook explore fa'afafine life in Independent Samoa.

A Minnesota United Church of Christ minister and LGBT ally prays for marriage equality with correspondent Dixie Treichel.

Plus -- admirers Lily Tomlin, Jane Lynch, and Steve Harvey "Mark" Ellen DeGeneres' "Twain" at Washington, DC's John F. Kennedy Center.

And in NewsWrap: gay activists take Jamaican sex laws to court, Cameroon legal advocates get death threats, marriage equality appeal rejected in New York, a Viking "voices" his support for it, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 27, 2012

SUMMARY

Suing for Dignity - Jamaican activists file suit at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demanding repeal of their island nation's sodomy laws …

Lawyer Contracts - phone calls and text messages from persons unknown make death threats against two legal advocates for LGBT rights and their family members in Cameroon …

Lacking Appeal - New York's highest court rejects what may be the last legal challenge to the state's marriage equality law …

Holding Noses May Not Be Enough - the gay Log Cabin Republicans give Mitt Romney their "qualified" endorsement, even as the GOP presidential candidate reiterates his support for a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and the "Boston Globe" reports on his efforts as Massachusetts governor to thwart the legal recognition of lesbian and gay parents …

Cheerleader-In-Chief - President Barack Obama formally urges votes in favor of marriage equality on state ballot measures this November in Maine, Maryland and Washington …

Marriage Scrimmage - National Football League Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo's outspoken support for Maryland marriage equality draws a state lawmaker's letter demanding that the team owners silence him, prompting Minnesota Vikings punter CHRIS KLUWE to mock the lawmaker in an open letter and appear in a radio ad against the marriage equality-banning state constitutional amendment on the November ballot in his state [you'll hear the spot] …

One-Two Punch - recently "out" Puerto Rican professional featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz wins his first fight as an openly gay man ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 22, 2012

SUMMARY

Big No, Small Yeses - Australia's Parliament soundly defeats federal legislation to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples, but some states and territories forge ahead with their own marriage equality measures …

Some More Equal Than Others - some French LGBT activists call the Socialist government's marriage equality proposal less than equal …

Slow Simmer - contrary to previous predictions that the U.S. Supreme Court would consider challenges to bans on marriage equality at its September 24th conference, that now may not happen until after the November elections …

Counting Couples Before They Hatch - Statistics Canada issues what may be inflated census figures about the number of married same-gender couples in the country …

Unteaching Tolerance - Jamaica's Education Minister pulls a controversial high school Health and Family Life textbook that he says is a bit too gay-friendly …

Intermission - British theater producer David Cecil is finally released on bail in Uganda but still faces two years in prison for staging unauthorized performances in Kampala of a gay-affirming play …

Inimitable Words - "out"-spoken U.S. Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts celebrates the September 20th one-year anniversary of the official end of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow ….

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